Show & Tell
Ipsodeckso Facilitation Card Decks – A Tour
Ipsodeckso is is going to be of considerable interest to facilitators and coaches. It contains a number of great decks already and the ability to add your own […]
Workplace Learning
design process
Using Games to Sculpt Agency
Thi Nguyen’s book, ‘Games: Agency as Art’ offers us a framework for learning games that focuses on our tools and their potential, and what we can do for players […]
Live sessions
The Pizza Game – Continuous Improvement Game
On the 3rd November, we gathered exactly the right number of people to start a pizza business – it takes five apparently. […]
Application
Simulations vs Games
Games and simulations are often mentioned together. They do share some of the same characteristics; but games and simulations are different from one another. […]
Application
How Games Can Help You Navigate the Workplace
Although playing video games may seem counterintuitive to workplace productivity, the values that people can learn from games may benefit the overall business. […]
Ideas
Playing your Cards Right – Walkman Lab
As soon as you are introduced to a game and its storyline, your resources and characters, the meeples, the boards, are literally and figuratively in your hands. […]
learning topics
The Push and Pull of Strategy Games
Although boundaries between genre and platform have gradually decreased, strategy games have been consistently popular for decades. […]
learning topics
What Makes a Good Strategic Game?
What game experiences help you to create strategic responses to specific challenges? And which work for developing widely applicable strategic thinking skills? […]
Ideas
Off the Shelf Social Constructivist Learning
GBL is a Constructivist approach in that gives learners tools to construct their own learning, usually through ‘solving’ some kind of central problem. […]
experiment
Using Off The Shelf Games for Learning
Bespoke learning game design fits your learning outcomes precisely, but can be costly. An off the shelf game can be a cost effective and high value alternative. […]
Live sessions
Keep It Real Game – Live Play Session
A live play session with Leslie Robinson of Trance4Mation games, where we get to play the Keep It Real diversity and Inclusion game. […]
Live sessions
MyCelium Playtest – June 8th
MyCelium started with a simple idea – prompted by a report on some research which shows that fungi can communicate using up to 50 ‘words’. […]
Ideas
Play with a Purpose
Is Climate Change always a bad thing? Not if the ‘climate’ is a team culture, and you’re changing it to foster creativity. Meet Creative Climate Change. […]
Ideas
Water Closets and the Gamification of Learning
The WC tells us that excrement is waste, for which the solution is disposal. The way many adults view Play shares characteristics of the water closet mindset. […]
Ideas
Gaming in the Workplace
The ‘all work, no play’ approach means that we miss out on the many ways in which play could bring benefits to us in business. […]